Some of you might like this. It serves predominantly rural Native American, 95% low income students. It is not run by a company. It is designed around...
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Joe Nathan
jnathan@...
Feb 2, 2010 3:51 pm
Some of our Chicago colleagues, as well as others, may wish to comment on this. For what it's worth, the 5 keys were each part of the 10 keys included in a...
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smallschools-owner@ya...
Feb 2, 2010 3:52 pm
Diane Ravitch to Deb Meier: "I know you are a major supporter of small schools, but this is a terrible corruption of your ideas. These new small schools are...
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Deborah Meier
deborah.meier@...
Feb 3, 2010 10:47 am
The five key elements describe success, but it's unclear to me that they us define the PATH to success. Deb ... -- Deborah Meier deborah.meier@... Visit...
Joe, Thanks for the note about the book. Their conclusions (and yours) map very well onto what our research suggests. For example, we have argued that there...
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Joe Nathan
jnathan@...
Feb 3, 2010 10:51 am
Yes, Dr. Ravitch, allowing public schools to use admissions or audition tests, as elite NY district schools like John Dewey and Stuyvesant (Sp) have done for...
Joe--John Dewey high school was not ever an examination school. The sad thing is that in the name of smallness and choice--which I support--we have both more...
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Pedro Noguera
pednoguera@...
Feb 3, 2010 3:34 pm
I just spent some time with a turnaround school in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn last week. PS 12 was identified by NY State as a school in need of...
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smallschools-owner@ya...
Feb 4, 2010 5:34 pm
Addressing Myths About School Closures <http://www.quickanded.com/2010/02/addressing-myths-about-school-closure\ s.html> February 3rd, 2010 | Category:...
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Deborah Meier
deborah.meier@...
Feb 4, 2010 5:35 pm
Right on, Pedro. I assue PS 12 is an elementry schoolo. Did they transfer any students? Was it mostly prepping or did you have a feeling of a learning...
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Kenneth Bernstein
kber@...
Feb 4, 2010 5:35 pm
I read Pedro's post with some interest. I am aware of the use of GOOD data- I did spend 20+ years of my adult life working in data processing in a variety of...
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Joe Nathan
jnathan@...
Feb 4, 2010 5:35 pm
Thanks to Deborah and others for their notes. I went to the NYC high school on-line registration info which listed dozens of high schools that screen, ...
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smallschools-owner@ya...
Feb 4, 2010 5:37 pm
Charter challenge <http://www.bluenc.com/charter-challenge> Submitted by James on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 2:42pm It doesn't take much digging to see North Carolina's...
Why Isn't the 'Mother of Small Schools' Feeling Smug? By Deborah Meier <http://blogs.edweek.org/Bridging-Differences/> on February 4, 2010 9:46 AM ... ...
Joe and other Friends-- At least here in Chicago, the "5 essential supports" derived from work that Smokey Daniels and I, along with other school reformers,...
Press Release: New Report Explains that Charter Schools' Political Success is a Civil Rights Failure <http://bit.ly/bHoA5W> For Immediate Release Contact:...
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Pedro Noguera
pednoguera@...
Feb 5, 2010 3:04 pm
Deb, They didn't transfer any students but they did transfer about half of the teachers which they are allowed to do when they are placed under review by the...
Debbie, I had the great honor and privilege to spend a little time in discussion with Seymour Sarason with the then-small staff at the Coalition of Essential...
Austin Polytech goes techno School opens new learning center focused on vocational training By LA RISA LYNCH Contributing Reporter A new manufacturing...
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Joe Nathan
jnathan@...
Feb 8, 2010 5:59 pm
This is really cool. I have looked at several of these, produced by the National Science Foundation and NBC Joe N Videos found at www.nbclearn.com/olympics ...
Anyone in the Bay Area might be interested in coming to this screening tomorrow night. This documentary is about the power of community organizing for...
Your reMany people are surprised at the avalanche of false or misleading data the PoP present to the school board when they are launching one of their attacks....
New study looks at segregation in charter schools By Kevin G. Welner The Washington Post published an article ...
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Joe Nathan
jnathan@...
Feb 10, 2010 10:39 pm
Bill Wilson, the first African American president of the St. Paul, Minnesota City Council testified last year in the Minnesota state legislature. Wilson ...
